Pulling back a stray lock of hair, she drew a question…

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright

Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.

— David Deida

It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God…

— Ron Fournier

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense…

— Jon Krakauer

Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

— Nicole Richie

Coal is the moral choice, particularly for the developing world... The model for the world right now should be Australia. Australia gets it. Scientifically…

— Marc Morano

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

— J. C. Ryle

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction…

— Wayne Gretzky

Dames are always pulling a switch on you.

— Dana Andrews

You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You…

— Tommy McCarthy

So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was…

— Molly Antopol

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

— Thurgood Marshall

Thoughts are things. Negativity is what kills you... It's tough to do, but you've got to work at living, you know? Most people work…

— Jack LaLanne

This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.

— Mark Lynas

Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps…

— Jesse Bering